FIL's infrastructure just got a serious upgrade for AI workloads. The network rolled out Warm Storage as a new access tier, sitting between hot and cold storage with hourly onchain verification. What's interesting here is the contract-bound access model—data retrieval tied directly to smart contract logic, which could matter for compliance-heavy use cases.

Beam delivery is the other piece. Faster retrieval speeds, onchain proofs baked in. The whole setup seems designed for AI training pipelines that need verifiable data provenance without sacrificing speed. Not exactly revolutionary, but practical for anyone building ML models on decentralized rails.

Still early to tell if this moves the needle on adoption, but the technical direction makes sense. Decentralized storage finally acting less like cold archives and more like actual infrastructure.